Lisa Smedman

Lisa Smedman
Born	North Vancouver, British Columbia
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1997 -
Genre	Science fiction and fantasy

Lisa Smedman is a science fiction and fantasy author and journalist. Her novel Extinction, set in the Forgotten Realms universe, was a New York Times bestseller. Smedman first became known for gaming adventure novels, and later published her own independent fantasy novels.

Smedman was born and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (a suburb of Vancouver). She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in anthropology from the University of British Columbia and a journalism diploma from Langara College in Vancouver.

After her first job as a typesetter for a local publisher, Smedman has spent her whole career working as a reporter and editor at Vancouver-area weekly newspapers. She has worked at the Richmond Review, the Langley Times, and Sounder magazine. She has written extensively on local history, having worked as an editor at the Vancouver Courier writing local history articles, and having published two non-fiction books on the history of Vancouver.

Smedman lives in Richmond, British Columbia, a Vancouver suburb.

Smedman is one of the most prolific authors of science fiction and fantasy gaming tie-in novels in Canada. She first began writing stories in elementary school. In 1981, she discovered Dungeons & Dragons and soon became a Dungeon Master.

By 1987, Smedman had become convention spokesperson for the 15th year of the Vancouver Science Fiction Convention (V-Con), the annual convention of the British Columbia Science Fiction Association. The Convention attracted about six hundred people.

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